The number 22 has positive connotations for the Portland Trail Blazers. It was Clyde Drexler’s uniform number. The first franchise superstars–Geoff Petrie and Sidney Wicks–averaged 22 points per game during their Portland tenures. Unfortunately, 22 is also where the Blazers placed in the opening round of NBA Power Rankings for the 2025-26 season. Nestled between […]
Hello there and welcome to the Big Ten Power Rankings! Each week we’ll rank how the teams across the conference are playing, in the hopes of seeing just who is a contender, and who is a pretender over the course of the season. The rules are few, but resolute: Teams are ranked by how they’re […]
Albert Pujols won’t be the next manager of the Angels, according to a report from Jon Heyman of the New York Post. Heyman writes that Pujols and the club have broken off talks due to differences between the sides regarding “coaches, resources, and compensation.” The Athletic’s Sam Blum reports that while circumstances could change, it’s believed…
The 2025-2026 Alabama Crimson Tide basketball season is almost upon us, and it’s fair to say that this is a transitional season, though not a team that finds itself completely rebuilding. Long-time stalwarts like Mark Sears and Grant Nelson have moved on, and the Portal claimed some quality players that are a better fit elsewhere […]
On October 20th in 2005, Vancouver Canucks voices John Shorthouse and Tom Larscheid won $20,000 in the 50/50 draw benefiting local charities for children during a home game against the Phoenix Coyotes.
Having played the popular lottery at every Canucks home game since they began working together in 1998, the giddy pair celebrated their first ever 50/50 win with four minutes remaining in the
Following the Kansas City Chiefs’ 31-0 dismantling of the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday afternoon, Arrowhead Pride user Belohawks scoured the Internet for the most appropriate news headlines. Division Win = Joy Multiplied Arrowhead: where math is fun! Raiders’ Week Is: Animosity, Bitterness, Spite, Venom… In other words: hostility, acrimony, detestation, loathing… OktoberFEAST Fun festival […]
As the Astros construct their 2026 team over the off-season, their assessment of promising rookies’ performances will be an important input. A.J. Blubaugh is one of the more promising 2025 rookie pitchers. His 2025 pitching at the major league level definitely showed promise. But the sample size is small (32 innings) and his potential role […]
They may sound like sports cliches – but for the Brooklyn Nets – imitation is the highest form of flattery. And there’s no need to reinvent the wheel when the defending NBA champions just laid out the formula. When the Brooklyn Nets recently hired Oklahoma City Thunder director of amateur scouting Acie Law IV to […]
Photo Courtesy of UNM Athletics New Mexico Holds Off Nevada’s Challenge in a 24-22 Home Victory The New Mexico Lobos narrowly beat Nevada 24-22 on Saturday night at University Stadium for their homecoming game. They relied on a steady ground game and crucial defensive stops to earn their first Mountain West Conference victory of the […]
It is the ninth year of Top Prospect voting at South Side Sox! First, let us review past years: To make sure we give the SSS readership a strong vote in our South Side Sox Top 100, we’re going to run five or 10 polls before kicking off our Top 100 Prospect countdown. Ideally, we […]
As the Padres search for a replacement for retiring manager Mike Shildt, they’re setting their sights on a big name: future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols. According to a report from Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune, Pujols is set to interview for the position with the Padres, though it’s not yet known when…
Lately I suspended the anti-game ball post after Jets losses. The team has being beaten so thoroughly that it was difficult to find any standouts. Pretty much everybody earned an anti-game ball. But after the Week 7 loss to the Carolina Panthers, I have decided that at least for this week we can give out […]
The Associated Press released its All-American Team Monday and AJ Dybantsa was one of five players that made the exclusive team. He is the lone freshman. Below are the five players and their vote totals out of 57 voters. Kansas’ Darryn Peterson got the nod as the Big 12 Freshman of the Year, but Dybantsa […]
In a match scheduled for Tuesday, Karolina Muchova (No. 21 in rankings) will take on Maya Joint (No. 32) in the Round of 16 at the Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis.
In this matchup against Joint (+225), Muchova is the favorite with -300 odds.
Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis Info
Tournament: The Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis
Round: Round of 16
Date: Tuesday, October 21
Venue: Ariake Coliseum & Ariake Tennis Forest Park
Location: Ariake, Japan
Court Surface: Hard
Maya Joint vs. ...
Katie Volynets (No. 98) will take on Katarzyna Kawa (No. 127) in the Round of 32 at the Galaxy Holding Group Guangzhou Open on Tuesday, October 21.
In this match versus Kawa (+500), Volynets is favored to win with -800 odds.
Galaxy Holding Group Guangzhou Open Info
Tournament: The Galaxy Holding Group Guangzhou Open
Round: Round of 32
Date: Tuesday, October 21
Venue: Guangzhou Nansha International Tennis Center
Location: Guangzhou, China
Court Surface: Hard
Katarzyna Kawa...
For a while, Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones has told the media that reinforcements for the defense would be on their way. Now it looks like his words officially ring true. DeMarvion Overshown is on his way back. Jones hasn’t been the only one teasing an early return for Overshown. The player […]
On Monday, the Indianapolis Colts announced that the team has resigned cornerback David Long Jr. back to the team’s practice squad. The Colts had an opening on their taxi-man team after starting cornerback Chavarius Ward was placed on injured reserve from the active 53-man roster, and veteran running back Ameer Abdullah was signed from their […]
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IU football defensive lineman Kellan Wyatt, who suffered a knee injury in Saturday’s win against Michigan State, will be out for the foreseeable future. The 6-foot-2, 257-pound transfer from Maryland has been an impactful addition this season for the Hoosiers ...
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Welcome to The Shotgun/Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup (that we didn’t already talk about in another article) with some sophomoric humor and daily distractions thrown in for good measure. And if there’s something we missed, be sure to talk about it in the comments. WHITE HOT The weekend brought mixed results for West Virginia soccer. The […]
The Patriots closed out their three game road stint with yet another victory, this time over the hapless Tennessee Titans, and now sit as the No. 2 seed in the AFC, just behind the Daniel Jones-led Indianapolis Colts. In case you were still holding out hope for anything at all making sense in the NFL […]
The Phantoms’ opening weekend was a true tale of two halves: the season opener on Saturday night saw them looking commanding, playing with a high level of pace and creating a good volume of chances, popping a lot of their skill game while still keeping a noticeable level of physical engagement up, but that level of impact dipped significantly in the second half of that back-to-back, as the team brought a more listless and disjointed showing on the way to their first loss of the season to the d...
Through the first seven weeks of the 2025 NFL schedule, the Buffalo Bills find themselves in an unfamiliar position: in second place in the AFC East, looking up at the New England Patriots following a two-game slide leading up to the team’s bye week. Looking at the rest of the AFC, there is no true […]
Former NBA point guard Shabazz Napier will join the Washington Wizards as a coaching apprentice, according to Michael Scotto of HoopsHype. Napier is a seven year NBA veteran who played for six NBA teams, finishing with the Wizards in the 2019-20 season. He averaged 7.1 points per game during his career. After the 2019-20 NBA […]